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Hemp vodka "with Ukrainian roots"

12.01.2017

Scythian tradition of using hemp ingredients to create a "strong drinks" are still being used on the territory of Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Several centuries ago, the recipe hemp vodka "migrated" from the Scythian tribes across the Nordic peoples of the Balkans in Europe, including the Baltic States came to the territory. Using hemp raw materials in vodka has a long tradition, so Lithuanian technologists especially did not invent, they are "shifted" the ancient Scythian recipe hemp vodka on modern technologies.

Group of wine and spirits company Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits in 2016 received approval of relevant government agencies to sell hemp vodka in France and Spain. Since September 2016 the entire territory of the French Republic officially sold vodka, infused with hemp - Shotka.

His promotion to the European market distillery Shotka products beginning in the summer of 2015 in the nightclubs of Barcelona, ​​and in early 2017 continued its sales in the United States. Similar spirits use different hemp ingredients already present in both the European market and in North America. In particular, from April 2012 hemp vodka actively sold in the US, and one of "gaining momentum" alcohol brands is «Hemp Seed Vodka»; in Europe in the market actively sold "Rushkinoff cannabis" - Spanish hemp vodka; Czech «Cannabi» and «Euphoria cannabis», as well as the Swiss «Chanvrière».

It should be noted that in the initial stages of the hemp alcohol brands were used exclusively hemp seeds, but this line of production of wine and vodka products has undergone significant changes over the past few years. In modern alcoholic products companies creating brands with hemp seeds does not prevail, and the leaves, buds and even the technical cannabis buds. The focus of the product is not only the smell, but also to the biological properties of the resulting product, "pulling" beznarkoticheskie cannabinoids from cannabis plant material, wherein the amount of controlled tetrahydrocannabinol content in vodka is so small that any influence have on the human body, it can not.

"Shotka" positioned not only as vodka, which can be used as a "hot drink". One of the main areas of application are the "club drinks", ie alcoholic or low-alcohol cocktails in demand from patrons a variety of entertainment.

Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"

The group wine and spirits company Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits includes one of the Lithuanian distilleries. The concept of hemp vodka - Shotka Lithuanians made out on the market since 2007. As we told our colleagues from Lithuania, formulation of them produced hemp vodka had its basis in the days of the Middle Ages. Scythian tradition of using hemp ingredients to create a "strong drinks" are still being used on the territory of Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Several centuries ago, the recipe hemp vodka "migrated" from the Scythian tribes across the Nordic peoples of the Balkans in Europe, including the Baltic States came to the territory. Using hemp raw materials in vodka has a long tradition, so Lithuanian technologists especially did not invent, they are "shifted" the ancient Scythian recipe hemp vodka on modern technologies.

Considering the period of "O" to the market hemp vodka by our Lithuanian colleagues, as well as rapid growth in the number of distilleries companies working to create their own brand, using formulations in hemp ingredients, Ukrainian vodka producers makes sense to think about the need for research in this area. It should be taken into account in this national experience in the production of various alcoholic beverages using cannabis, as well as future changes of the national legal framework, according to which after a not so long time as the raw material can be used leaves and inflorescence beznarkoticheskoy hemp.